Half-cent sales tax has created close to $1.9M in revenue

And they're off.
Competition for the Education Fund Board's estimated $1.9 million in revenue from the city's half-cent sales tax began Wednesday night when the Technology Commission presented its first readings of funding requests to the EFB.

Proposed improvements to a North Routt business and a tentative plan to develop roughly 1,000 acres of agricultural land west of Steamboat Springs are on the county planning commissioners' agenda tonight.

Class gets hands-on education in nutrition

Home economics classes aren't offered until middle school, but that didn't prevent a group of Strawberry Park Elementary School fourth-graders from receiving an early lesson in food preparation and nutrition Wednesday.